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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Friday 12 August 2022?The weekend draws near, but one challenge awaits before you can relax. Today’sWordlefeatures a tough word with a pesky double letter which is sure to cause trouble. Fortunately, we’re here to make sure you don’t lose your precious Wordle streak. That’d be a bad way to start the weekend.
In this guide, you’ll find three helpful hints that you can use to find the Wordle answer today. If you’re down to your last guess and just need to know the answer, then simply scroll down a little further.
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Wordle August 12 hints
If you’re struggling with the Wordle answer today, or are stuck staring at a blank grid and don’t know where to start, we’re here to help. Below, you’ll find three clues for the Wordle answer today that will push you in the right direction:
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Today’s Wordle answer August 12
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
LABEL.
Labels are used to categorise things. They’re very useful at the shop, when you might need to distinguish between a pasta sauce that already includes chopped onion and a sauce that contains garlic. Otherwise, you might end up adding more garlic to a sauce that already contains garlic, and then you might kill your vampire friends with a pasta dish.
If you want to avoid making your vampire friends kill you, try your best not to spoil the Wordle answer today. Everyone has their own Wordle routine, and it’d be frustrating to have the answer ruined before you find time to play.
How to play Wordle
Wordle is a very straightforward word guessing game. The aim is to guess the correct five-letter word in just six guesses. With each guess, the individual letters of your chosen word will highlight green if they’re in the correct place, or yellow if they’re in the wrong place. If a letter doesn’t appear in the solution word at all, it’ll remain unhighlighted.
How did Wordle begin?
Are any Wordle words not allowed?
You can type in pretty much any five-letter word in the English language and Wordle will accept it as a guess. However, the answer is picked each day from a much smaller list of more common five-letter words. There are still thousands of possible answers, of course, but it means the answer will never be a word as obscure as, say, “THIOL”, or “CAIRD”, or “MALIC” (yes, those are all real words).
There are very occasional words which the New York Times will choose not to publish as the day’s Wordle answer, perhaps for reasons relating to recent news or politics. For example, shortly after news broke that Roe v Wade might be overturned in the United States, the NYT decided to change the March 30th word from “FETUS” to “SHINE”, as the feeling was that the word “fetus” was too politically charged a word in the context of recent events.
The New York Times has also been careful never to allow what they consider to be rude words as the answer to a Wordle puzzle. But of course there’s nothing stopping you from using even the dirtiest of words as guesses, as long as they’re accepted words in the dictionary, and as long as you realise that they’ll never end up being the answer.
Is Wordle getting too easy for you?
If after all that Wordle is still too easy for you, then you could always try one of the many other Wordle-inspired games online that have cropped up over the past year. One of our favourites isWorldle, in which you must guess a country of the world based on its shape. There’s alsoWaffle, which is about swapping letters in a completed grid to complete all the words;Moviedle, which shows you an entire movie in a tiny space of time and challenges you to guess the movie within six guesses; andQuordle, which tasks you with solving four Wordles at once with the same guesses.
That wraps up our guide for the Wordle answer today, but check back tomorrow for more useful clues. In the meantime, get some puzzling practice with our list of thebest Wordle starting words. If the list of previous solutions is getting too long to remember and you want to avoid wasting guesses, take a look at our list ofpast Wordle answers.
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